Posted on 05/28/2017 3:23:09 PM PDT by blam
I am a sucker for lists.
A few weeks ago, sparked by reading yet another claim that Donald Trump is the most "fill in the blank" in American history, I Googled "the worst American in history." I thought there was a list for everything some where in Googleland, but there was no decent list for this.
So I decided to construct a respectable ranking of the five worst Americans in history. I surveyed a group of about 30 academic and popular American historians, political scientists and law professors, asking them to nominate five figures from American history. Contemporaries were eligible, but had to earn their place against over 200 years of stiff competition.
I purposefully sketched only loose criteria for being the "worst." I asked that nominations include only people who held positions of public responsibility or power -- elected officials, business magnates, judges, polemicists, generals and so forth. I was not looking for the most evil people such as serial killers and sex criminals.
Lists are fun but also edifying. They reflect both the times in which they are made and the stories, not always the truths, that endure. You can be the judge of what this list suggests.
The list is not mine. It reflects the results of my little highly unscientific survey.
--Richard M. Nixon: Nixon was the clear winner (or loser). His nominations often included remarks such as "obvious" or "of course." However, several people noted they didn't include Nixon because he had many redeeming accomplishments (opening relations with China, domestic initiatives that are now considered liberal).
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--Donald J. Trump (tie for second): I tried and failed to steer the survey panel away from contemporary figures. As one historian wrote, "No, it is not too early to tell." We'll see.
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(Excerpt) Read more at arcamax.com ...
Jeff Davis - scum of the earth and responsible for the deaths of 750,000 Americans.
No Cher, no Streisand, no DiBlasio...
The very idea of “America” has been under attack by treacherous Marxists for years.
Surely these people who are explicit traitors are the worst villains in this nations history.
...and that demon that dressed as a clown and buried boys in the crawlspace of his house, Chicago...John Wayne Gacy I think.
The list could be extensive. The Texas campus sniper who killed something like 22 should be there.
Five worst, eh. Let’s see:
Woodrow Wilson
Both Clintons
Ted Kennedy
Margaret Sanger
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Obama is not American, so I won’t add him to the list.
And All Clowns!
Margaret Sanger
Ayn Rand
LBJ
Jefferson Davis
Elvis Presley
Well done. Chicago is certainly a cesspool.
Not sure, but N.B.Forrest was probably a Democrat because he was a slaver and Confederate that slaughtered black prisoners. All the rest are Republicans. Color me surprised. Why put this tripe on FR?
Why did you bother to read it and comment.
Seventy people before you seems to have found some value to it. Crawl back into your hole.
First three that come to mind is : Bill and Hillary Clinton ,and Fagot Obama
As does John Dewey, Eugene Debs, Gus Hall, Franklin Roosevelt, Alger Hiss, Lauchlin Currie, Harry Hopkins, Walter Duranty.
The list is long.
I don’t know who this bastard is but I can tell you for sure who he voted for the last thirty years!!!
Where’s the barf alert?
Pick a name or two from the MSM and I could easily
sign-off on your list. Maybe Edward R Murrow and Walter
Cronkite because of how the hateful media worships them.
Abraham Lincoln.
He has the most American blood on his hands, so far. But Obama and Bill Clinton could catch up if the Norks or Iran are successful with their nuke programs.
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